Meanwhile, Abigail and Alex's artificial body continued to enter the Forest of Misery, Alex was suddenly awakened by the sound of an alarm on his cell phone.
"Huh? What time is it?" Alex asked himself as he looked at his cell phone. "Huh? Seven P.M.? That means I've slept more than five hours which means that in Phantasm Prodigy more than fifty hours have passed."
Alex got up from his bed and was about to get into his capsule. However, he felt hesitant to do so.
"Should I log back into this game? Or should I throw this game away?" Alex asked himself. "But wouldn't it be a waste if I just throw it away?"
After thinking for a moment, Alex chose to enter the capsule and play Phantasm Prodigy one more time because he thought it would be a waste if he just threw it right away.
[Starting the system]
[Checking the user's body]
[Checking the upper body... (56%)]
[Checking the middle body... (47%)]
[Checking the bottom body... (43%)]
[Body checking completed... (100%)]
[User compatibility (100%)]
[Welcome to Phantasm Prodigy]
The scene of darkness that Alex saw suddenly turned into a dense expanse of trees. He tried to look around and he could only see a fireplace in front of him beside the trees.
"Where is this? Why am I here?" Alex asked himself.
"Oh, you finally logged back in I thought it would take a little longer," Abigail's voice echoed in Alex's mind. "You should be thanking me because now you just have to enjoy the feeling of having a high level."
"What do you mean?" Alex asked.
"Say user data," Abigail said in Alex's mind.
"User data," Alex said.
[User Identity]
Name: -
Title: -
Race: Human
Sex: Male
Age: 21
[User Information]
Class:
Level: 178
Skill:
[User Statistics]
Strength: A (SSS)
Intelligence: B (SSS)
Vitality: A (SSS)
Agility: A (SSS)
Dexterity: A (SSS)
Luck: E (SSS)
[User Combat Ability]
HP: 169,099/178,000
MP: 67,889/89,000
Sta: 379/500
P.atk: 25,000
M.atk: 12,500
P.def: 7,684
M.def: 4,677
P.res: 5,276
M.res: 7,261
A.spd: 31%
M.spd: 34%
Acc: 22%
Crit: 19%
"It's changed a lot from the last time I saw it," Alex thought. "But why I don't have a name? Shouldn't my name state as Abigail?"
"That's because the Abigail name has been embedded in this body, whereas that body is a new body without a name," Abigail said in Alex's mind.
"You just can say the name you want to use," Abigail said. "Oh, for additional information, your new body seems to have the same appearance as the Primordial Demon King."
"Who is it?" Alex asked. "Did you know him by any chance?"
"That's a long story, I'll pass on the information to you next time since you will need at least two days in real-life time to receive all of it," Abigail replied.
Hearing what Abigail said, Alex could only sigh and chose not to know the information first since it will take a lot of his time.
"Then why am I here? And where are you?" Alex asked.
"You are in the fourth circle of the Forest of Misery, while I am in the third circle," Abigail replied.
"What does it mean?-"
[Unlimited Knowledge (Myth) effect activated: Akashic Record]
Before Alex could finish his words, Abigail has already sent him the information he needs. The information he got explained what the Forest of Misery was and what the circle of the Forest of Misery was.
The Forest of Misery is one of the cursed forests that existed in Phantasm Prodigy. As with other forests, this forest also has its own curse. The curse of this forest is to give misery to anyone who dares to enter it.
Those who dared to enter the Forest of Misery would be beset with all kinds of things that would assail them mentally and physically to the point where they would be unable to think clearly.
In fact, some rumors said that the people who dares to enter the Forest of Misery would fall into misery and become a sacrifice to the Forest of Misery.
Meanwhile, the circles of the Forest of Misery are several circular zones that surround and form the Forest of Misery itself.
Those circles are divided into seven levels, from the seventh to the first. The more someone enters the deeper circle parts of the Forest of Misery, the more they suffered.
Apart from the Forest of Misery, those circles are also applied to other cursed forests that existed in the world.
"Oh, but it seems I won't be affected because of my god slayer class, right?" Alex asked Abigail. "Then, should I catch up with you now?"
"Yes, and hurry up," Abigail replied.
As Abigail's voice echoed in Alex's mind, Alex immediately stood up and followed the path that had been marked by Abigail.
Although at first Alex was almost lost because he couldn't understand the meaning of those marks, slowly but surely he learned about those marks by himself.
Those marks were in the form of magic circuits that has been manipulated to the point they will or won't allow a certain person to go the path that has been marked.
Those magic circuits themselves are divided into three types, the red color means that Alex is not allowed to pass the path, the yellow color means that the path is an alternative path, and the green color means that Alex is allowed to pass the path.
While following the path that has been marked with a green magic circuit, Alex sometimes encounters some mid-level monsters, and he easily kills them with one slash of his sword that has been strengthened by the magic circuit that Abigail formed.